Maureen Koster prize money
Maureen Koster has been paid $19,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1150th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's 3000 m and women's 5000 m, the best of them 4th.
The Diamond League pays by finishing place and nothing else. A published card sets what first through eighth is worth, the same figure in every discipline at that meeting, and ninth pays nothing.
Every payment
Where she finished, and what the card paid for it
The eleven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $19,750 is eleven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Ten of the 21 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Maureen Koster did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | 14th | 15:07.58 | - |
Maureen Koster stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Maureen Koster did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | 8th | 14:38.78 | - |
Maureen Koster stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where she finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Maureen Koster
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 5 | - | 2015 to 2017 | $8,000 |
| Women's 3000 m | 6 | - | 2022 to 2026 | $6,750 |
| Women's 5000 m | 10 | - | 2022 to 2026 | $5,000 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Maureen Koster $8,000 of the $19,750, which is 41% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2015 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | - | British Athletics Grand Prix | $7,000 |
| 2016 | - | - | - | - |
| 2017 | 2 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $1,000 |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | 3 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $1,250 |
| 2023 | 4 | - | Bislett Games | - |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $3,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $3,500 |
| 2026 | 4 | - | Bislett Games | $4,000 |
season running total
2015 is the biggest of them, $7,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Maureen Koster in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $19,750.
Around Maureen Koster on the money list
Ranks 1130 to 1170
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1130 | Martina Weil | Women's 400 m | - | $20,250 |
| 1131 | Sylwester Bednarek | Men's high jump | 1 | $20,250 |
| 1132 | Svetlana Radzivil | Women's high jump | - | $20,083 |
| 1133 | Aleksey Fyodorov | Men's triple jump | - | $20,000 |
| 1134 | Buze Diriba | two disciplines | - | $20,000 |
| 1135 | Cindy Billaud | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $20,000 |
| 1136 | Cooper Lutkenhaus | Men's 800 m | 2 | $20,000 |
| 1137 | Favour Ofili | two disciplines | - | $20,000 |
| 1138 | Jade Lally | Women's discus throw | - | $20,000 |
| 1139 | Jaide Stepter Baynes | two disciplines | - | $20,000 |
| 1140 | Kemba Nelson | Women's 100 m | 1 | $20,000 |
| 1141 | Maggie Malone-Hardin | Women's javelin throw | - | $20,000 |
| 1142 | Marvin Anderson | Men's 200 m | - | $20,000 |
| 1143 | Robert Oosthuizen | Men's javelin throw | - | $20,000 |
| 1144 | Salaheddine Ben Yazide | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $20,000 |
| 1145 | Stephanie Garcia | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $20,000 |
| 1146 | Timothy Kitum | Men's 800 m | - | $20,000 |
| 1147 | William Sharman | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $20,000 |
| 1148 | Daniil Tsyplakov | Men's high jump | 1 | $19,750 |
| 1149 | Marvin Bracy | Men's 100 m | 1 | $19,750 |
| 1150 | Maureen Koster | three disciplines | - | $19,750 |
| 1151 | Rose Davies | two disciplines | - | $19,750 |
| 1152 | Stanley Joseph | Men's pole vault | - | $19,750 |
| 1153 | Victoria Hudson | Women's javelin throw | - | $19,750 |
| 1154 | Maria Żodzik | Women's high jump | 1 | $19,667 |
| 1155 | Andrew Turner | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
| 1156 | Curtis Mitchell | Men's 200 m | - | $19,500 |
| 1157 | Daniele Greco | Men's triple jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1158 | David Kendziera | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
| 1159 | Eliott Crestan | Men's 800 m | - | $19,500 |
| 1160 | Emil Agyekum | two disciplines | - | $19,500 |
| 1161 | Inika McPherson | Women's high jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1162 | Isobel Pooley | Women's high jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1163 | Jacious Sears | Women's 100 m | - | $19,500 |
| 1164 | Jonathan Muia Ndiku | two disciplines | - | $19,500 |
| 1165 | Jordan Clarke | Men's shot put | - | $19,500 |
| 1166 | Łukasz Michalski | Men's pole vault | 1 | $19,500 |
| 1167 | Maddi Wesche | Women's shot put | - | $19,500 |
| 1168 | Patricia Hall | two disciplines | - | $19,500 |
| 1169 | Tia Hellebaut | Women's high jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1170 | Yvette Lewis | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Maureen Koster is 1150th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $19,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Maureen Koster most
British Athletics Grand Prix 2015 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 1500 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gudaf Tsegay, Renata Pliś, Gabriele Grunewald, Morgan Uceny, Sifan Hassan and Abeba Aregawi.
Bislett Games 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 3000 m, one of 17 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Linden Hall, Megan Keith, Rose Davies, Innes FitzGerald, Yenenesh Shimeket and Hannah Nuttall.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 paid $2,500 for 6th in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hirut Meshesha, Caroline Nyaga, Nozomi Tanaka, Weini Kelati, Marta Alemayo and Karissa Schweizer.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Maureen Koster won?
$19,750, which ranks 1150th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2015 and 2026.
What is Maureen Koster's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,000, for finishing 4th in the 1500 m at the 2015 British Athletics Grand Prix. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 4th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Maureen Koster gets paid?
Entirely by where she finishes. The series publishes one rate card a season and applies it to every discipline at every meeting, so a place is worth the same in the women's 1500 m as it is in the shot put on the same afternoon. Eight places are paid and ninth pays nothing. There is no bonus for a record and no share of a gate.
Has Maureen Koster ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Ten times. The series pays the first eight and the fields run past twenty, so a ninth place is a Diamond League start that paid nothing at all. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Maureen Koster earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, no national federation payment, no appearance fee and no sponsorship. What it does hold is every dollar the series itself paid her, priced off the card it published.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
Diamond League prize money ranks all 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Maureen Koster is Marvin Bracy on $19,750, and one below Rose Davies on $19,750. Maureen Koster is one of 55 Netherlands athletes athletics has paid, and Netherlands athletics prize money adds them up to $2,809,167 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 1500 m prize money, women's 3000 m prize money and women's 5000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Maureen Koster has been paid in three of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bislett Games has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full final is on the women's 5000 metres page. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the women's 5000 metres page.